[Fot] TR? Could hurt your eyes

[Duncan Charlton]

I saw one of the seven built (apparently not three) at the Sinsheim, 
Germany transportation museum (someone else's photo here: 
http://tinyurl.com/ow57nk7).  It's pretty remarkable when you get next 
to it and realize that those are 24" wheels, which are in scale with the 
rest of the car.

Duncan
(Texas)

On 3/6/15 10:20 AM, Bill Dentinger via Fot wrote:
>
>     I kind of like the concept, they just stopped a little short. 
>     Picture the same car with some box flairs covering the tires, some
>     panasports instead of those wheels on there currently, and turbo 4
>     or 6 cylinder....... 
>
> Amici...
> My instructor at the first Driver's School I ever attended was a guy 
> named Hal Ulrich.  He was an ex-SCCA National Champion, and in fact 
> had to be one of the first ever, because he raced in all of those 
> early USA sports car races through the streets of Elkhart Lake and 
> Watkins Glen. He was a hired hot shoe, who drove for 'gentleman' 
> sports car owners.  He was a great guy, but I drove him crazy because 
> I couldn't double clutch during the sessions, and I was wearing out 
> the synchros.  He and his brother Bill ran a 'speed shop' that, back 
> in the day, catered to Chicago's 'Gold Coast' (Lake Forest, etc.) 
> folks.  His life time experiences were full of exotic cars like Aston 
> Martin, Bugatti, Excaliber, Ferrari, etc., but he had a special place 
> in his heart for Triumphs (especially the TR2 and TR3).  He told me 
> that in the mid to late 1950s they put tons of Chevy V8 engines in 
> TR2s and TR3s.  He said they must have done forty or fifty of them.
> Hal is dead now, and I am not sure about Bill.  But these were two 
> extremely interesting guys.  When they started telling tales, you 
> would end up spell bound.  Bill's lifetime quest was the process of 
> developing his own 'Bugatti-like' engine.  Not sure if it ever became 
> a physical reality, but I know there was a bunch of people interested 
> in it, and being involved financially.  One story Hal told me was 
> about the time one of his customers bought one of the three Bugatti 
> Royales.  Hal flew out to New Jersey to pick it up, and then drove it 
> back to Chicago.  He said mechanically it made the trip with 
> no problem whatsoever, except that it was the dead of winter, and the 
> car had no heater (at least no working heater).  Those three Royales  
> are now, arguably, the most valuable collector cars in the world.
> I am rambling, but my point was that even back in the late 1950s lots 
> of people were modifying TR3s. That's my point, my position is, "Shame 
> on them!"
> Bill Dentinger
>
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